From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 16:53:39 MST
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> "Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should
> think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars
> - caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't
> be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He
> never will get completely over the memory of the bars."
> -- El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
>
> Sounds reasonable to me...
Me too. Which is why prison should only be for those just too dangerous
to allow to roam free. And why parole should be a rarity...else why are
they in prison at all?
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